Monday, 15 December 2008

Going Open Source

Bonkey is going Open Source. I haven't got time to maintain and develop it, but I would be disappointed to see it rust away in the garage.

There are a few wrinkles to iron out (most notably merging the Mac and Windows trees and getting it setup in a repository), but otherwise the code is in relatively good shape. Hosting services other than S3 can be added reasonably easily. It is all written in Java on top of Eclipse's RCP.

If anyone is interested in helping establish the project, please drop me a line at thebackupmonkey@gmail.com

5 comments:

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You can pass vmargs specifying a bigger heap size ("bonkey.exe -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx128M"). Good summary of the parameters here: http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5578. You may also want to play with the heap size arguments in wrapper.conf.